Museum der Kulturen Basel

Basel
Switzerland
Museum der Kulturen Basel
Museum der Kulturen Basel
Das Museum ist in die Altstadt eingebettet
Art
The Museum der Kulturen Basel ranks among the leading ethnographic museums in Europe. The Museum's world-renowned collection numbers more than 340,000 objects, around 300,000 photos, 400 films and sound recordings. In order to regularly display and reposition collection pieces, the Museum organizes, in addition to its two permanent exhibitions, a number of special exhibitions each year with a focus on current as well as more general topics that shed light on the variety and diversity of cultural manifestations across the world. Visitors thus get to see the world with different eyes.

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Museum der Kulturen Basel

Münsterplatz 20
4051
Basel
Switzerland
Opening hours
Open all year from
Tuesday - Sunday: 10:00-17:00

Closed on
1st Wednesday of the month: until 8.00 pm

Exhibition "The Carnival of Basel":
Thu – Sat: 1.00 – 5.00 pm
Sun: 11.00 am – 5.00 pm
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Mask with red cheeks, wearing a red patterned hood. In the background is another similar mask with a dotted cape.
Exhibition
Twelve thousand items
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Between 1900 and 1936, a collection of European ethnography began to take shape in the museum. Items of everyday life, as well as such pertaining to faith and festivities were assembled. Notably, not ...

Cross with whitish figure of Jesus in the centre, with shells of different sizes and colours draped around it.
Exhibition
Beautiful and spiritual
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In order to immerse in the spiritual realm in everyday life, people rely on a variety of means: candles, figurines or images support believers in prayer and meditation beyond the sphere of churches ...

Eagle curling up in the colours green, black and grey.
Exhibition
Creators
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From delicate feather work to heavy beer pots; items in many different shapes and forms and made of unusual materials. Museum collections are archives of human creativity. But who are these people ...

Bird figurine in shades of gold and red with a very long beak and long, curved horn.
Exhibition
The path to the beyond
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How do different societies imagine the transition from this world to the beyond? How do they configure it, and what path does a soul or a deceased person set out on? The exhibition explores what lies ...

The picture shows a detail of the lintels. You can see a relief with a snake on it.
Exhibition
Memory
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Remembering and forgetting are ever-present features of life. The exhibition playfully reveals the manifold practices people rely on to recall specific moments in life, from birth to death, but also ...

Painted rain forest with various trees and plants under grey sky, one man is walking into the forest at the bottom of the picture.
Exhibition
Alive
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The climate crisis poses a threat to the habitability of the Earth, and has prompted a rethink of the perspectives, networks, and interactions of human and non-human actors. How do we humans perceive ...

Ein Waggis in traditionellem Kostüm und mit Larve steht in einer Tür. Dahinter sieht man ein Larvenatelier
Exhibition
Basel Carnival
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Set in historical rooms, the Museum offers a colourful overview of the world-famous Basel carnival – ranging from costumes, lanterns, masks, and musical instruments, to historical documents and a ...